Saturday, January 31, 2015

Thank you everyone for joining in our ANYTHING GOES challenge this month.All of the projects entered were outstanding, we really enjoyed looking at each and every one. You all made it a very tough decision, we narrowed down our top choices and have come up with a DT's Choice winner.

Our JANUARY 2015 Winner is #12 TERESA

CongratulationsTeresa ! You've won a $15 digi voucher to the Smeared Ink shop.

Please email us at smearedinkstamps@gmail.com to claim your voucher, also please grab your winner's badge code by clicking the link at the top of the page.

Friday, January 30, 2015

That's right folks January has flown by and we are at the end of our challenge already!

Thank you to everyone that has joined in this month, I've loved seeing every single project shared. Be sure to check back tomorrow to find out our winner and the day after for the start of the new challenge.

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Hey there Rebecca here with today's daily dose of Smeared Ink. I have added another page to my book. Simple layout (which is much more difficult for me to do) but I think it's perfect. Hope you enjoy. Don't forget to head over to my blog and leave some love. Just click on my name under the DT list.

I have used copics to color he woman. Gesso in black and white, a dot stencil that I covered with blue acrylic paint and I have also used perfect pearls and mod podge. The lines are made with a black posca pen.

Sunday, January 25, 2015

If you're not a member of the club it'll be a couple of months before this go on general sale...

so what better time than NOW to join the club?

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I started off by covering the box with some embossed cardstock. Gave it a coat od DecoArt silver metallic paint. Once dry applied black DecoArt antiquing cream and wiped back so it sits nicely in all the nooks and crannies. This was then sealed with two coats of DecoArt media ultra matte varnish to protect. I then stamped one of the wild woman images and decided to stick with the cool grey family using my copics to achieve a monochromatic look to tie in with the box décor. I then die cut a frame and dry brushed with silver metallic paint. Appplied to the box lid with 3d foam pads and then attached the main image on top of the frame.

Box Top.

Side View.

Angled View.

You still have a few days to join in with our current Anything Goes challenge.

Looking forward to seeing what you create. Thanks for visiting today. Be sure to check back tomorrow for some more Inspiration from another designer.

Saturday, January 24, 2015

I've got a bookmark to share with you today, I was helping my eldest son with some art homework, showing him how to apply paint with a pallet knife, so I ended up with a sheet of black card with red paint all over it. I figured it would come in handy so put it up to dry, when I was thinking about what I was going to make for this week I saw the piece of card and thought...this would work with a zombie. I cut out a piece in the shape of a coffin, added one of the stamps from the Zombie pinup set along with one of the sentiments and made myself a new book mark.

You still have a few days left to join in with this months challenge, the link is just to the side there<<<<<<

Friday, January 23, 2015

Today I'm posting the March/April page in my calendar, it has yet another digi by Alexandria Serrano and this one is called "For the birds". I colored the bird girl with my promarkers, did some shading and added highlights with my new white pen. =) Been trying to use different colors for each image, as far as it goes. =) The papers are from the set that came with the calendar kit and also the sticker sentiment I added.So come and play along with us in our Anything Goes challenge, just remember to use at least one Smeared Ink image in your creation! =)

"The
unendurable oppression of the lungs - the stifling fumes from the damp
earth - the clinging to the death garments - the rigid embrace of the
narrow house - the blackness of the absolute Night - the silence like a
sea that overwhelms the unseen but palable presence of the Conqueror
Worm - these things, with the thoughts of the air and grass above..."

Check out my blog Crafty Inknik to find out more about this art journal page.

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Hey there, I hope everyone is enjoying the week so far. I am loving all of the great pieces my lovely DT members have been sharing every day. I must be feeling a bit old fashion because I have been vintage inspired recently. So I give you another.

can't wait to see what all of you have in store for my eyes to feast on. Please join us and link up you entry using the link at the bottom left of the current entries. Good luck.

Monday, January 19, 2015

I got a golden shiny box from ebay when I ordered some foundation...so I thought it was a fab idea to do a makeover on it that fits me more :)

Stamped two different stamps from the poe rubber set that I got from The Smeared Ink rubber club on silver tissue with three colors of archival ink. Added the tissue with mod podge. Painted the inside and edges with black gesso and did a mixture of americana crackle and perfect pearls powder that I added as a top coat. Did the same thing on flowers as on tissue. Also added a decorative handle...
The inside is filled with some candy brains...oh my...they were really disgusting to eat...tasted like chemicals, toxic :)

Sunday, January 18, 2015

I decided to create a little box drawer built from scratch from chipboard that holds a little surprise within. Once the outer box and drawer were constructed and covered with paper from my stash. I added a Tim Holz hitch fastener to the drawer front. Small dominoes glued together to make the feet and attached to the box base. I then printed out the lil grumpies I wanted to use and coloured with copics. I mounted one onto a chipboard piece and triple embossed to make a tile for the top of the box.

Side View of box

Top View of Box.

Front View of Box.

And now for the little surprise contained within. A front cover was created in photoshop and a title added. This was then bound with the rest of the coloured images into a little mini book to sit inside the draw. Neat Huh..................Draw opened.

Saturday, January 17, 2015

Happy weekend!! I love that my weekend starts with sharing my creativeness with you all. Today I've got a card to share, I have used one of the stamps from the Morbidly Adorable Tarot set 1. I used only colours from the brown grey and ice grey spectrum noir colour groups. The papers are some from my stash.

Friday, January 16, 2015

Time for the January/February page in my calendar! =) I used Horn's single digi by Alexandria Serrano for this page and some matching paper from a set that came with the calendar.The image is colored with promarkers, added glitter pen to the beads in her hair and some high lights with a white pen. Then I chalked the edges of the image and added two different patterned papers for the background and two chipboard hearts too.Remember that if you are joining our Anything Goes challenge you have to use an image from Smeared Ink to be able to enter, a link to the challenge is found HERE! =)

Thursday, January 15, 2015

I am combining my Smudgy Antics daily inspiration project with this months Smeared and Smudged January Member Blog Hop theme - In The Dead of Winter.

Click HERE to start at the beginning of the Hop. Or my Crafty Inknik blog, to find out more about today's Smudgy Antics project and join the Hop from there. Either way you will have tons of fab deadly chilling projects to see today! I have created a new AJ book cover for an upcoming S&S event/challenge. All images are Smeared Ink digital pages.

Smeared Ink Digital Papers Used: Icy CraniumPoe BoyIn the dead of winter many can go quite mad, insane, or just plain crazy. This art journal will be a tribute to all those wonderful creatures born and thriving during this special time of year.

Monday, January 12, 2015

Yes, I´ve made a mixed media canvas background that I first used the glue gun to add some kitchen foil ( a new technique for me) to the canvas and then painted it with black gesso. It gets a similar texture as crumbled tissue but a bit harder in both feel and look. I then added some acrylic paint in green, pink and silver. On top it is a layer of heat embossing powder and then some black gesso on just the surface.I have used only red rubber from the Smeared Ink rubber club and it is from the "winged things", "poe" and "urban decay" set and I stamped them with distress ink embossing pad and added white or pink embossing powder as you can see ;) The heart wing on the upper right is filled with white posca pen after embossing.

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Good morning and welcome to a new day of Smudgy Inspiration and my first post as part of the DT.
I will warn you now this is an image heavy post and I hope you will indulge me. I decided to create a set of ATC's and a Booklet to house them in using Teri's fabulous new Digi image set GrandMaster. The images are based on chess pieces, but skully just how I like them. I coloured up the images with my copics, scanned them into photoshop and added them to a background created with Rick St Dennis Morte Common Grave Digital Stamp. Printed them off and attached to an ATC base cut from mountboard as I find this a much sturdier substrate than cardstock.

Front and back Covers of Booklet.

The covers were created using mountboard and the same background design applied as the ATC's. A Spellbinders die cut in black 300gsm cardstock was used to adorn the covers back and front.

Smudgy Antics Challenges

Our fabulous Smeared Ink DT

*To participate, you must make a NEW project that features at least 1 STAMPED or DIGI IMAGE... FROM SMEARED INK ,add it to the post using the Inlinkz linky. Any other supplies and images may be used. Your link MUST take us directly to your project on a PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE blog or website, or it will be disqualified - so please make sure you're linking to your actual post. It must be linked by midnight Pacific Time on the scheduled end date, which will be three days before the end of the month. You must use a new project; back-linking is NOT allowed.

*Your project can be anything (card, scrapbook page, mixed media, altered or 3-D item, etc) as long as it is handmade and stamped somewhere with at least 1 rubber or digital stamp....from SMEARED INK . We have taken into consideration our digital artist fans and will be allowing all-digi projects. Please note that while collage sheet images can be used in your project, the collage image does NOT count as a stamped image. You still need to use a rubber or digital stamp somewhere on your project. Feel free to think outside the box and have fun with your project! We are all about looking at things differently and look forward to the variety of projects and mediums we are sure to see.

*You can only enter the challenge and qualify for a prize if you are, or become, a follower of the Smudgy Antics blog. Also, you must mention Smudgy Antics in your blog post and provide a link to our blog. This helps others to find us so they may play along as well.

*Multiple projects are allowed as long as each project follows the rules. Each project must be linked individually into the Inlinkz linky tool and must link to it's own individual blog post in order to be considered as separate entries. (Multiple projects in one blog post will be considered as 1 entry).

*The winner will be chosen by RANDOM DRAW and will be revealed on the last day of the month. The winner will get BOTH the prize and a winner's blog button to display on their blog. A TOP 3 will be voted for by the DT and shall get a WINNERS BLOG BUTTON... Only the best projects will win TOP 3 so bring your A-game!